Memorial: M2161

Wall tablet in the Church of St Peter and St Paul, Fareham, Hampshire commemorating commemorating Captain John Richard Lumley, RN d. 1821

Location

Church of St Peter and St Paul, Fareham, Hampshire, England

Transcript

'IN MEMORY OF / JOHN RICHARD LUMLEY ESQR / CAPTAIN R.N. / WHO DIED ON HIS PASSAGE FROM MADRAS TO PENANG / IN COMMAND OF HM SHIP TOPAZ JULY 23RD 1821 / AGED 37 YEARS. /ALSO OF JULIA, THE BELOVED WIFE OF / LIEUT. COLN. FREDERICK DOUGLAS LUMLEY, / SON OF THE ABOVE / WHO DIED AT FAREHAM THE 7TH OF DECEMBER 1857 / AGED 33 YEARS / IN MY FATHER’S HOUSE ARE MANY MANSIONS; / IF IT WERE NOT SO, I WOULD HAVE TOLD YOU / I GO TO PREPARE A PLACE FOR YOU. / ST JOHN XIV. 4 / ALSO OF GRACE MARY, RELICT OF THE ABOVE WHO DIED THE 17TH OF APRIL 1863, / AGED 78 YEARS / ALSO OF COLONEL FREDERICK DOUGLAS LUMLEY, / DIED AT TAUNTON, ON THE 10TH MARCH 1884 / AGED 70 YEARS.'

Details

Description: Obelisk-shaped.
Type: Wall tablet
Position: Nave
Vessel: HMS Topaze

People

Lumley, John Richard
Age: 37
Date of Death: 23/7/1821
Cause of Death: Unknown/None
Rank / Occupation: Captain RN
Organisation: Royal Navy

Extra

Notes: Also remembered is his daughter in law Julia who died in 1857 his widow Grace who died in 1863 and Colonel Frederick Douglas Lumley who died in 1884.
Bibliography: Peter Clissold 'More Memorials in the Solent Area', 'Mariner's Mirror' vol. 67, p. 369 (Greenwich, 1981).
Recorder: Sighted B. Tomlinson 2018
Photographer: B. Tomlinson

JSON

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Commemorating seafarers and victims of maritime disasters